A Pluggable Authentication Module for Big Data Federation Architecture

This paper intends to propose a trustworthy model for authenticating users and services over a Big Data Federation deployment architecture. The main goal of this model is to provide a Single-Sign-on (SSO) approach for the latest Hadoop 3.x platform. To achieve this, a conceptual model is proposed combining Hadoop access control primitives and the Apache Knox framework. The paper provides various insights regarding the latest ongoing developments and open challenges in this domain.

keywords: Big Data, HDFS federation, Authentication, SSO Reference Model